Exploring the intricacies of Bower and enhancing dependency management

Currently, I am working on developing a project named myapp using angularJS along with Yeoman Generator. This project involves utilizing Bower to manage dependencies and Grunt to wiredep those dependencies into the index.html file (which essentially generates index.html with all scripts and links based on the bower configuration and dependencies).

One of the dependencies in my project is angular-gantt, which is available through Bower as a single .js file.

In order to contribute to the development of angular-gantt, I have used the command bower link to read sources from a locally cloned git repository.

However, I find myself in need of overriding the bower main property specifically for myapp to make use of the javascript source files within this folder instead of the single distributed one.

Is there a way to automate this process without manually listing each source file one by one? Are there any generators available to assist in creating this list based on the sources?

myapp/bower.json

{
  "name": "myapp",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "angular-gantt": "~0.6.1",
    ...
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    ...
  },
  "overrides": {
    ...
    "angular-gantt": {
      "main": [ // <= How to avoid listing those files manually ?
        "file1.js",
        "file2.js",
        "file3.js",
        "file4.js",
        ....
      ]
    },
    ...
  }
}

angular-gantt/bower.json

{
  "name": "angular-gantt",
  "version": "0.6.1",
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Schweigi/angular-gantt",
  "authors": [
    "Schweigi"
  ],
  "description": "A Gantt chart directive for Angular.js without any other dependencies.",
  "main": [
    "./assets/angular-gantt.js",
    "./assets/gantt.css"
  ],
  .......
}

Answer №1

If anyone else is facing this issue, I have found a solution that worked for me.

The library angular-gantt utilizes grunt for tasks like concatenation and minification, both of which support the option to generate a sourceMap. Enabling this feature results in the creation of a source map file alongside the distributed .js file.

Intellij IDEA can utilize this source map for debugging directly from the original sources while still using the minified file in the runtime environment. No extra configuration is necessary, as the source map filename is added as a comment at the end of the distributed .js file.

By incorporating a grunt task like watch, the minified file can be automatically updated whenever changes are made to the source files.

In summary, by utilizing an IDE that supports source maps and setting up automated tasks like grunt watch to monitor changes and update the distributed .js file accordingly, the problem can be effectively resolved.

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